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Animal owners who neglect, mistreat or cannot provide adequate care for their animals could find themselves in Levy County Court where the judge could order Levy County Animal Services to remove the animals from their custody

In two unanimous votes the Levy County Commission approved:

• a change to the job duties of animal services workers to include investigation of violations of the state's animal cruelty law and

With summer vacations now behind us and the biggest season of all underway – football season – it’s a good time to think about donating blood.

During the summer, when school is out and student numbers drop on university campuses, the blood supply takes an annual dip as well. Now, with students back and vacations over, donors are needed to rebuild the community blood supply.

Plans are coming down to the wire for the Fanning Springs’ Holiday Inn Express and Dairy Queen development project.

“We need this application out the door by the end of the month,” said grants administrator Fred Fox at Fanning Springs’ city council meeting last Thursday. The state has to have all the money obligated by Dec. 12, he said.

Memo from the Levy County Commission to the City of Chiefland: Nothing is free.

And while you are at it, could you explain how, if you cannot afford to pay for an $11,000 study on how allowing the city to provide Advanced Life Support (ALSnt) non-transport service would affect the county's EMS assessment, how will you pay the $250,000 a year it takes to operate ALSnt service?

The Levy County Commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner Chad Johnson of Chiefland voting no, to deny helping Chiefland fund a study of the assessment program as part of the city's request to operate an ALS non-transport service.

The city had asked the county to share part of the $11,000 cost and to allow the city to make monthly payments for the study. But the commissioners, saying the city was showing it is not able to afford the $250,000 per year service if it cannot fund an $11,000 study, voted to deny the request.

Tallahassee — A Miami patient who was tested for Ebola on Sunday was negative in a preliminary test and a second patient in Sarasota, who traveled to West Africa, was also tested, by the Florida Department of Health (DOH), the Joint Information Center announced on Monday.

In following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol, another sample from the Miami patient was sent to the CDC's Atlanta lab for confirmation of this negative result. The CDC's results are expected on Wednesday.

The Levy County Sheriff’s Office reports that the missing man from Inglis has been located.

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is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Arnold Dean Fahr. Mr. Fahr is described as a white male, 78 years old. He is partially bald and has gray hair and wears glasses. Mr. Fahr also wears a prosthetic leg.

The U.S.S. Pueblo was masquerading as a scientific research vessel off the coast of North Korea when enemy forces determined the ship was of interest, sending a small fleet of boats to corral its crew of 81 officers and enlisted men.
That was 1968, and the enemy had good reason to be suspicious. The Pueblo was a U.S. Navy surveillance ship, loaded down with the most high-tech spy equipment of the day, as well as a good deal of intelligence.